Happy Festivus! 'Puppies Crash Christmas' and 32 more holiday specials to stream right now; Rotten Apples; remembering 2017; Sheila Nevins leaves HBO

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The holidays are finally here, and this issue happens to be arriving in your inbox on a popular TV-inspired holiday, Festivus. Keep reading for the backstory on that, and much more...

 Happy Festivus!

• 'Stop Crying And Fight Your Father': SEINFELD Writers Tell How Festivus Came To Be (Ashley Burns and Chloe Schildhause / Uproxx)
• 25 Years Later, The Oral History of SEINFELD's "The Contest" (Jen Cheney / New York)

Season's streamings

• 'Puppies Crash Christmas': Hulu Continues Its Holiday Tradition of Addictive Yule Log Alternatives (Hanh Nguyen / Indiewire)
• 19 Great Christmas Sitcom Episodes to Stream Right Now (Jen Cheney / Vulture)
• 13 Beloved TV Holiday Specials You Can Stream Right Now (Charles Bramesco / NYT)

2017 in review

• In 2017, TV's Streaming Revolution Made Its Biggest Leap Forward Yet (Josef Adalian / Vulture)
• Cynopsis Media Presents: The Ratings Top 100 of 2017 – Broadcast, Cable and Syndication (Marc Berman / Cynopsis)
• 2017: Hulu's Reflections on TV Streaming (Catherine Beley / Hulu)

Hollywood harassment scandals

Rotten Apples and more responses to the story of the year

• Website Helps Movie and TV Fans Keep Track of Hollywood's 'Rotten Apples' (Maya Salam / NYT)
• How New York Times Reporters Broke Hollywood's Biggest Sexual Harassment Story (Brent Lang / Variety)
• Anita Hill To Chair Entertainment Commission On Sexual Harassment (Bruce Haring / Deadline)
• How Hollywood Insures Against Actors Behaving Badly (Anousha Sakoui and Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg Businessweek)
• How Television Anticipated the Weinstein Moment in 2017 (Sophie Gilbert / The Atlantic)

exits: Amazon execs to Apple; Catt Sadler; Sheila Nevins

• Amazon Head of Kids Programming Tara Sorensen Among Trio Exiting for Apple (Lesley Goldberg / THR)
• Catt Sadler Exits E! News Citing "Massive" Salary Disparity With Male Co-Host (Nancy Tartaglione / Deadline)
• Sheila Nevins, The Grande Dame of Documentary, Is Leaving Her Home at HBO (Maureen Dowd / NYT)
• Sophia Bush Addresses Her CHICAGO PD Exit: "It Was My Dream Job and I Was Miserable" (Chris Harnick / E! News)

in development: Steven Soderbergh's MOSAIC; Casey Wilson NBC pilot

• Steven Soderbergh Drama MOSAIC Airs Across Five Nights on HBO (Michael Malone / B&C)
• Casey Wilson, Jackie Clarke Team for NBC Put Pilot (Joe Otterson / Variety)
• 'I Hate Everyone But You' Author Allison Raskin Launches Soap Opera Podcast (Peter White / Deadline)

more to read

NATHAN FOR YOU; adults playing teens; Jenji Kohan

• The NATHAN FOR YOU Finale, My New Favorite Love Story (Errol Morris / New Yorker)
• The Adult Bodies Playing Teens on TV (Christina Caterucci / Slate)
• Jenji Kohan's Hot Provocations (Emily Nussbaum / The New Yorker)
• GHOSTWRITER: The Most Literary '90s Kids Show (Nick Ripatrazone / The Atlantic)

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